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a large lake, in order to verily, if possible, a statement of a Greenlander 

 concerning the occurrence of cryolite. But we did not succeed in this. 

 The Greenlander could not iind again the "many and large blocks" 

 he thought he had seen, and at last he merely maintained that "at 

 any rate there had been a white stone on which it was possible 



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to make scratches." Nor did the trip yield any botanical results of 

 interest. The valley was narrow and surrounded by high mountains; 

 during winter there must be a thick snow-covering of long duration, 

 and the vegetation was that usually found in such places — an open 

 rocky-flat vegetation with small commencements of heath and bog. 



